...the lake, And no birds sing. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. [innate of the Fiat Arts No. XIII, July 1819] My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains 4 One minute past, and Lethe-wards Tia3 sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too...

...few lines of verse, one of the most familiar passages in the Romantic canon, the opening of Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale': My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock 1 had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ....

...such as local and general anesthetics, surgery or meditation. A. THE HISTORY OF ANALGESIC DRUGS "My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains" John Keats, 1795-1821. Ode to a Nightingale As noted above, two groups of herbal analgesics have been...

...monotonous effect, which is broken by the interjection of the vowels as in "aches", "pains", "drains. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute 'past, and Lethe wards had sunk : The happiness of the nightingale evokes a correspondingly pleasurable state...

...deform; The Beadsman, after thousand aves31 told, For aye32 unsought for slept among his ashes cold. Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains1 One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being...

...Nightingale hingewiesen? Dort ist keineswegs alles poetisches Gold, was glänzt. Hier der Text: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,...

...candle throws his beams! x/ x/ /XX/ x/ So shines a good deed in a naughty world. x/ / xx/x/x / (36) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. . . Although the same inversion of a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables occurs, the rhythmic...

...quickly moves from the drowsy, gustatory imagery of the self-involved opening lines ("My heart aches ... as though of hemlock I had drunk, / Or emptied some dull opiate") to his oxymoronic objective correlative, the "happy" bird, who "Singest of summer with full-throated ease."...

...precedent for elaborate and irregular— but repeated— stanzas like those in the odes of Keats: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness—...

...melodies" of Keats's poem. The setting, the mood, the tone of "Delta Autumn" are all cast in the mode of "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy...pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where...